Materials Systems Laboratoryhttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1788
Analysis of the strategic implications of materials choice in the
automotive, electronic, and aerospace industries

2015-02-26T03:54:39ZMaterials Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responseshttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35728
Materials Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses
Alonso, Elisa; Field, Frank; Gregory, Jeremy; Kirchain, Randolph
Supply chain stakeholders should be aware of the stresses that supply chains
place on materials use and the vulnerability of the supply base for that material to change. The question of materials availability is an issue that has been addressed many times over the past 200 years by scientists, engineers and economists, and it is an issue with many levels of complexity. This document examines the question of materials vulnerability, or conversely materials availability, from the perspective of a supply chain decision-maker. Specifically, it addresses four elements of this question:
(1) Outcomes: What types of changes can be observed in supply chains as a result of limited materials availability?
(2) Mechanisms: What can cause supply chains to face limited raw materials availability?
(3) Metrics: How can supply chain decision-makers screen for materials availability vulnerability?
(4) Strategies: How can supply chains adapt to become more resilient to potential limited
materials availability?
This paper, through the use of detailed case analyses, suggests that there are specific outcomes – technological, operational, and geographic – which can be expected within supply chains when limitations on materials emerge and that at least two mechanisms can drive limited access to materials. These results are complemented with an examination of metrics to diagnose vulnerability and a preliminary discussion of preventative prescriptions for the supply chain.
2007-01-17T13:44:03ZAppendix 1 for Fuchs and Kirchain's Journal of Lightwave Technology paper, "Process Based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture"http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33458
Appendix 1 for Fuchs and Kirchain's Journal of Lightwave Technology paper, "Process Based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture"
Fuchs, Erica; Kirchain, Randolph
These tables summarize the designs studied as part of the Microphotonics
Consortium Roadmapping Project and are referenced in Fuchs, E. and Kirchain,
R. 2006 "Process Based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture: The
Cost-Competitiveness of Monolithic Integration of a 1550nm DFB Laser and
Electro-Absorptive Modulator on an InP Platform", Journal of Lightwave
Technology, August 2006.
2006-07-18T20:10:52ZAutomobile Recycling Policy: Findings and Recommendationshttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1686
Automobile Recycling Policy: Findings and Recommendations
Field, Frank; Ehrenfeld, John; Roos, Dan; Clark, Joel
This report focuses on recycling. As an objective neutral party, MIT has compiled a knowledge base that examines the many complex issues relating to re-cycling. Although this report was prepared at the request of the Automotive board of Governors, it was not prepared solely as an industry response document. Rather, it attempts to focus on the concerted actions that both industry and government should take. MIT hopes that the document can serve as the basis for forging international consensus on a rational approach to recycling policy. This document presents the findings and recommendations of this group to the Board of Governors. In addition to these recommendations, supporting materials in the form of four appendices, tracing specific aspects of the problem of vehicle recycling and the ways in which these problems can be analyzed, are appended.
Findings and recommendations presented to the Automobitive Board of Governors, World Economic Forum, Davos.
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